As a result of the military men's action 9 local residents, mainly young people of 20-25 years old, were captured and taken away in an unknown direction.

According to the preliminary data of the Ingush Interior Ministry, two people were killed and over twenty wounded, as a result of an explosion near the building of the Federal Security Service Department in Magas.

According to some data, two of the kidnapped were thrown away on the outskirt of the settlement, having been savagely tortured and beaten.

Tent camp inhabitants asked the guests to do their best not to allow forced liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", authorities trying to close it at all costs.

The head of the Moslems of Kabardino-Balkaria Anas Pshikhachyov told it in an interview on Friday.

It was claimed by Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Deng at a press-conference in Moscow.

A car with the chief of the Kizilyurt region of Dagestan, Abdurakhman Gadzhiyev, was fired at from an automatic gun on Saturday, reported the Interior Ministry of Dagestan.

On September 11 Ella Pamfilova, the Chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, called the disinclination of the country's leading human rights activists to send observers to the Chechen presidential elections a "moral defeat of the whole community of human rights defenders".

Chairwoman of the Armenian National Press Club, Ambion Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Narine Mkrtchian announced it in Yerevan on Saturday speaking at a hearing on the issue of the adoption of the new law of Armenia "On the Mass Media".

"Statements of Russian officials do not always reflect the reality," said Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Mading Deng wrapping up his visit to Russia. During his visit to Russia on September 8-12, Mr. Deng traveled to Ingushetia and Chechnya.

The statement reads: "The fight against criminality has for, above all, the object to protect peaceful citizens and it can not be conducted by criminal methods. Each fact of lawlessness and despotism must be investigated, and the guilty must be called to account.

"I am not ready to bare the core of the proposals that mediators intend to discuss in Vienna on September 15 owing to objectives reasons. But terms used by the media, in particular, "new" and "modified" proposals, speak for themselves and there is no need for further comments." New OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairman Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia told it at a briefing in Yerevan on September 10.

The letter reads: "I, Akhmad Hajji Kadirov, the Acting President of the Chechen Republic, demand to establish an interdepartmental commission with your assistance, empower it, find missing people at the highest level, and, which it the most important, reveal and punish the "werewolves on APCs", this "squadron of death", hard, fully according to the law."

On September 11 the White House made public US President George Bush's determination regarding trafficking. It is pointed out in the determination that Georgia made notable progress in fighting trafficking in persons.

Georgian State Minister Avtandil Jorbenadze declared it after he had met with Tamaz Nadareishvili, the leader of the legitimate authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia in exile, on September 11.

Answering a question on the forthcoming presidential election in Azerbaijan, he refused to make any forecasts, only noted that in the view of stability preservation "the minimum of status quo changes and shakes in Azerbaijan were desirable".

"It is inadmissible that the Russian leadership does not pay attention to the unconcealed breach of the neighboring country's sovereignty by Russia's subject," said Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Kakha Sikharulidze.

The OSCE Mission held a regular monitoring yesterday on the contact line of Nagorny Karabah's and Azerbaijan's armed forces in the direction of Agdam near the village of Bash Karvend.

A total of 4,720 servicemen of Russian security agencies were killed in Chechnya from October 1, 1999 to July of this year.

The people left their work places and stay with bedding in the direction's office. They demanded that the six-month arrears of wages be paid.